Coach Tai Tzu-ying becomes the head coach of Chinese Taipei, aiming at the Tokyo Olympics

In December 2018, the Chinese Taipei Badminton Association held a meeting on the morning of the 6th to review the post of head coach of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics national team. The five judges unanimously approved Lai Jiancheng as the head coach of the Chinese Taipei badminton team, and his term will start from 2019. From February 1st until the end of 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The Chinese Taipei Badminton Association announced the application for the selection of the head coach in September this year. Coach selection interview. Chairman Zhang Guozuo and Si Xuxin, who are also former athletes, expressed their expectations that head coach Lai Jiancheng and the new coaching team can continue the achievements of Asian Games, and fully assist the top players of the Chinese Taipei team to prepare for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and compete in the competition. China won gold and silver for Taiwan, China, and achieved another success.

Lai Jiancheng said in an interview that he still has a lot to learn. At present, the first priority is to set up a coaching team. He hopes to inspire the young players of the Chinese Taipei team after taking office, so that they can have clearer goals. to pursue.

Lai Jiancheng used to be a badminton player. He gave up playing in his junior year because he was confused about his future career. After joining the Chinese Taipei badminton team as an assistant coach for a period of time in 2010, he was assigned as a sparring coach for Tai Tzu Ying . That year, Tai Tzu Ying was a junior high school student.

After a period of running-in, Tai Tzu Ying and Lai Jiancheng became more and more tacit. Therefore, Tai Tzu Ying's father directly applied to the Yuhui Association to have Lai Jiancheng become Tai Tzu Ying's full-time coach.

Under the leadership of the current head coach Zhang Zhengxiong, the Chinese Taipei National Team won the best team history of 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze in this Asian Games in Jakarta, and also completed the phased tasks. Before the selection meeting, he said: I am happy to see the younger generation to take over the post of head coach and complete the honorary inheritance of the old and the new.He was very happy that Lai Jiancheng was elected.

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